If content is King the money is still in the list. What is the one thing that all successful Internet Marketers have in common? What is the one thing that sets super affiliates aside from you and me? What is the one thing that prevents over ninety percent of people getting involved with Internet Marketing for the first time from being successful? The answer, like the money, really is in the list.

Nobody has conversion rates hovering anywhere near one-hundred percent but people do have something that makes up for it. You can not simply generate a blind list and expect to make money with it though. You have to be able to generate a targeted list, fill it with people that already have an interest in your product, give them enough information to prove to them that you are an authoritative and trusted source and get them wanting not only to remain on your list, but to be an active part of your list.

When you have accomplished this, you can honestly say that the money really is in the list. That is because people get bombarded with offers to join this mailing list or that mailing list and even more offers that are nothing more than spam. What will set you aside, make your list more responsive and thus, allow you to gain more money from your list, will all boil down to the content that you provide for your readership. When you understand exactly why your content is king, you can put the money in the list … and keep it there.

Your list is your ticket to financial freedom and what will set aside your successful online ventures from the vast number of failures that abound within the realm of Internet Marketing. Your list is (or at least should be) a recurring source of income and something that you can use to accurately generate a viable forecast into exactly how much money you can earn online.

Mike Filsaime, a name most Internet Marketers are familiar with, claims that he averages one dollar per month per subscriber on his list. That is not to say that he makes one dollar a month in actual cash earnings from the subscribers to his lists, but that he averages one dollar a month in actual cash money for each person that is currently on his list. Thus, if you have four thousand people on a list, you should be able to (realistically) expect to be capable of generating four thousand dollars a month in cash income from your targeted email customer list.

Now imagine that you provide quality content for the subscribers that you have added to your list, you promote lots of really great and relevant offers and you have an average open rate of forty percent on your email marketing campaign list. That is almost two thousand people that you are going to see responding to your marketing and promotions. That is almost two thousand people who want to give you money because they are on your list.

Statistically speaking, that should translate into a couple of hundred sales. Even if you are selling something as small as a seven dollar product, you could quickly replace any income that may have been lost in other areas. If you are selling higher-end products, can you begin to see why it is so commonly said that the money is in the list? Why you may think it sounds cliché, it really is true now, has been true in the past and will remain true in the future; content is King and the money is in the list!

There are many reasons for any Internet Marketer to build a responsive and targeted customer list for their successful efforts in an e-mail marketing campaign. This article will review only the top ten reasons but if you are new to Internet Marketing, suffice it to say that you are going to need both an effective email marketing campaign and a well targeted customer list.

Your success and profits will depend on effectively building a list and maintaining an ongoing email marketing campaign. In case you are in a hurry and just want to review the top ten reasons you can review them here but it may be beneficial to read the rest of the article as well.

Top 10 Reasons You Need to build and maintain an E-Mail Marketing Campaign

1. Build and establish a list of recurring Customers
2. Build and establish a sense of faith and trust among your customers
3. Build and establish customer loyalty
4. Have more people promoting you, your products, your Email Marketing Campaign and maximizing your results
5. Maximize your ROI for marketing campaigns and advertising

One: Build and establish a list of recurring customers. You can easily break your advertising budget trying to continually drive new traffic to your site. Ask anyone who has ever worked with adwords and no matter how successful their ads may be, they are much more costly and much less effective than a well targeted and receptive list on the receiving end of your E-Mail marketing campaign.

Two: Build and establish a sense of faith and trust among your customer base. No matter how much information you have on your web site and no matter how much you continue to provide for your readers, you will always have people who doubt the veracity of your information.

Hold back some information and offer it to your readers in a regular (and free) newsletter and you can, over the course of time, win over the hearts of even the most skeptical individuals within your particular niche. Additionally, they will become even more receptive to any special offers that you make available “exclusively to the list of customers” who are taking advantage of your newsletter … and ultimately, of your E-mail marketing campaign as well.

The more exclusive your readers feel themselves to be, the more privileged they will feel to be allowed to be a part of your email marketing campaign and the more they will respond. Now exactly how effective this is, depends a lot on exactly how much you provide for your readers. That is why it is paramount that you always provide the highest quality information and offers to your customer list with your e-mail marketing campaign.

Three: Build and establish a sense of trust among your customer list. This principle is touched on in number two but it deserves some clarification. There are always going to be skeptics and with literally billions of pages on the internet vying for the attention of your readers, it is no wonder that many people are resorting to selling hype and dreams.

That may be an effective way to get someone’s attention and drive traffic to your site but that is not always the best to keep people coming back to your website for more, much less getting them to become repeat customers buying both your products and those products that you have to offer.

A successful e-mail marketing campaign will allow you to provide your customer list with the very important and relevant information as well as assuring them that you have made it a full time job to look out for their better interest. In other words, you can use your email marketing campaign to let your customers know that you are doing all of the work so that they do not have to.

Four: Have more people promote you, your product and your email marketing campaign. Stop and think about this for a minute. How many newsletters, e-zines and other email marketing campaigns have you personally participated in? In other words; how many customer lists have you subscribed to? How many of those did you unsubscribe to?

If you are like most Internet Marketers, you have likely subscribed to a number of peoples email marketing campaigns … and quickly either unsubscribed or simply marked the emails as spam because the other person did not provide what you believed they would in their mass email promotions to you? Now, look at the other hand for a moment … at least when it comes to Internet Marketing and issues of faith and trust.

How many email marketing campaigns that your friends (not some other Internet Marketer) have told you about have you signed up for? Again, if you are “average” among Internet Marketers, you have probably signed up for anywhere from six to ten of these email marketing campaigns based on the recommendation of friends. You probably have not unsubscribed from many of them either.

The more people that you have on your mailing list, the more likely it is that they will recommend other people to sign up for your email marketing campaign. They are also generally more receptive to your offers and more responsive when it comes time to actually make sales pitches through your email marketing campaigns.

Five: Maximize your ROI or Return On Investment. Again, this is a topic that has been touched upon, and indeed, many of these topics overlap, but it is something that is very important to every internet marketer and something that can be greatly enhanced with an effective e-mail marketing campaign.

Trying to constantly find new sources of revenue can be difficult. Trying to constantly get new streams of “virgin” traffic or unique visitors to your site is also an expensive and daunting proposition for many people. Again, going strictly based on averages, you are probably only showing somewhere around a two percent return for your efforts.

Your E-Mail Marketing campaign should show average results of somewhere between ten to twenty percent average returns. Those numbers may be rather broad but even at the worse end, they still beat the average two-percent returns based on other sources of web traffic and customer generation.

The list of reasons that you need to establish, build up and maintain an effective e-mail marketing campaign go far beyond those few that are covered in this article but that should give you enough food for thought to begin thinking about it. The ultimate success of your email marketing campaign really does depend on you and what you do with it but rest assured that absolutely nothing will happen until you begin building a list.

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